April 16th 2006 01:19 am
TES Oblivion: Sutch
I was looking through the Bink video files (player) in the \Oblivion\Data\Video directory, and noticed something strange in CreditsMenu.bik…
Anyone who has played Oblivion will probably notice that Sutch doesn’t exist in the game, and is certainly not where it’s shown in this video.
Also, the name suggests that this video is shown from the main menu’s “credits” option.. it isn’t, the credits just scroll over the existing background (“Map loop.bik”), which seems to avoid Sutch’s location.
My guess is that the city was planned and removed. I wonder if the credits video is shown at the end, or if it was an accident to include it?
14 Comments »
Dbzdude on 14 Apr 2007 at 11:32 pm #
hey, I just found the exact same thing out! I researched it, and i guess I’m not the only one who figured it out after all!
Vality7 on 23 Apr 2007 at 5:13 am #
They obviously intended at one stage to put it in. Other than the video you showed, theres also a cell in the CS called something like ‘County Sutch Docks’.
Something i’ve found myself, I extracted the game’s heightmap, and looking at it you can see exactly where Sutch was planned to be placed, the land is carved out around it. Here have a look: http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i201/Vality7/TES3%20Cyrodiil/sutch.jpg
noone on 20 May 2007 at 2:17 am #
Judging by the distance and direction from Kvatch, it seems that the city was supposed to be exactly where Fort Sutch is; Sutch did make it into the game in a way, just not quite as large as planned.
The Rawr on 05 Jun 2007 at 6:34 pm #
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t4c16mV9Ts
Go to about 6 minutes in and watch. Keep watch to where Sutch is. Sutch wasn’t a mistake… it was removed.
Jonathan Bain on 21 Oct 2007 at 5:08 am #
wow why the hell they remove it, not like it cost anymore effort to keep it there?!
steph on 07 Apr 2008 at 8:52 pm #
i recon its that cos they had a computer meltdown and had to rebuild everything and i think they didnt have enough time.
V on 08 Apr 2008 at 12:07 am #
I (response to Sutch) have A video of A lot of things that didn’t make it into the game including A Health meter that turns read after multiple attack some awesome voice overs & A way better grab! If you know of any other or A mod (s) that reapply them lety me know thnx.
Kiza on 13 Apr 2008 at 8:48 pm #
“No Sutch Town”
sam on 18 Jul 2008 at 7:45 pm #
It was intended to be there,but before they released it they removed it from the game
drew on 14 Aug 2008 at 3:36 am #
You could see it in an early E3 build of the game as well. Too bad it was removed
Richard on 21 Aug 2008 at 6:49 am #
“steph on 07 Apr 2008 at 8:52 pm #
i recon its that cos they had a computer meltdown and had to rebuild everything and i think they didnt have enough time.”
Lol, that’s some amusing reckoning you’re doing.
Rob on 29 May 2009 at 2:59 pm #
This is a little late but, yeah Betheda had made Sutch as a city but had it removed, they left the ruined fort sutch where the original keep was. The area around it is still called County Sutch by the game. There are several books and NPC’s that mention Sutch which you can find by doing the fighters guild quests, i guess Betheda forgot to remove them.
Biohazard35 on 03 Oct 2009 at 1:10 pm #
If anybody wanted to have Sutch in their Oblivion somebody released an addon that adds their version of Sutch as well as a small questline: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16815
TES Fan on 06 Jul 2010 at 9:20 am #
Not only does it appear in the credits,(this one probably is a bug) in the fighter’s guild quest, after you finish “Mystery at Harlun’s Watch” a dialog popup says “…but I should speak with Azzan at Sutch if I haven’t already.” Interesting. So now I’m stuck as to what I’m supposed to do, and where I’m supposed to go.